Where am I wearing? : a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes / / Kelsey Timmerman.
"A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothesWhen journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. Where Am I Weari...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Rev. and updated. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 287 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: We have it made
- A consumer goes global
- Tattoo's tropical paradise
- Fake blood, sweat, and tears : anti-sweatshop protestors
- Jingle these
- Undercover in the underwear biz
- Bangladesh amusement park
- Inside my first sweatshop
- Child labor in action
- Arifa, the garment worker
- Hope
- No black and white, only green
- (Update for revised edition) Hungry for choices
- Labor day
- Year zero
- Those who wear Levi's
- Those who make Levi's
- Blue jean machine
- Progress
- Treasure and trash
- (Update for revised edition) The faces of crisis
- PO'ed VP
- Life at the bottom
- Growing pains
- The real China
- On a budget
- An all-American Chinese Walmart
- The Chinese fantasy
- (Update for revised edition) Migration
- For richer, for poorer
- (Update for revised edition) Restarting, again
- Return to fantasy island
- Amilcar's journey
- An American dream
- Touron goes glocal
- Appendix A: Discussion questions
- Appendix B: Note to freshman me
- Appendix C: Where are you teaching? : a guide to taking Where am I wearing? to a glocal context.